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Title: Breathe: How Apple Watch's new app will help you live and feel better Post by: HCK on September 22, 2016, 04:05:26 pm Breathe: How Apple Watch's new app will help you live and feel better
Georgia Dow is a senior editor at iMore and practicing therapist. She speaks everywhere from conferences to corporations and co-hosts numerous podcasts. follow her on Twitter @Georgia_Dow and check out her series at anxiety-videos.com. */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ This is how Apple's new Breathe app aims to do for our mental fitness what Stand/Roll did for our physical. When you're stressed, your breathing goes up into your chest and becomes quick and shallow. Historically, it was beneficial when you were in a high-anxiety state — about to fight or run for your life. Today, most of our high-anxiety states don't benefit from surges of epinephrine and fight-or-flight responses. Enter Breathe, a new app from Apple releases as part of watchOS 3. With breathing in general, and the new app specifically, you help put yourself back into a calm state with deep, rhythmic breathing from your belly. It signals the brain to relax, and restores a calmer, more-zen state. Deep breathing i... Source: Breathe: How Apple Watch's new app will help you live and feel better (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/CyHtZOgewow/breathe-how-apple-watchs-new-app-will-help-you-live-and-feel-better) |